The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, DublinC. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
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... no further use than to shew us , in general , the errors of human nature ; and to convince us , that neither the height of wit nor genius can bring a man to such a degree of perfection , as vanity would often prompt him to believe ...
... no further use than to shew us , in general , the errors of human nature ; and to convince us , that neither the height of wit nor genius can bring a man to such a degree of perfection , as vanity would often prompt him to believe ...
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Had the author written a book to expose the abuses in law , or in physic , he believes the learned professors in either faculty would have been so far from resenting it , as to have given him thanks for his pains ; especially if he had ...
Had the author written a book to expose the abuses in law , or in physic , he believes the learned professors in either faculty would have been so far from resenting it , as to have given him thanks for his pains ; especially if he had ...
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What that was , I have already told ; and I believe there is not a person in England who can understand that book , that ever imagined it to have been any thing else , but to expose the abuses and core ruptions in learning and religion ...
What that was , I have already told ; and I believe there is not a person in England who can understand that book , that ever imagined it to have been any thing else , but to expose the abuses and core ruptions in learning and religion ...
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... and what he hardly believes that of Jack being not quite So obvious as the other two . The second instance to thew the author's wit is not his own , is Peter's banter ( as he calls it in his Alfatia phrase ) upon- transubstantiation ...
... and what he hardly believes that of Jack being not quite So obvious as the other two . The second instance to thew the author's wit is not his own , is Peter's banter ( as he calls it in his Alfatia phrase ) upon- transubstantiation ...
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How the author came to be without his papers , is a ftory not proper to be told , and of very little ufé , being a private fact , of which the reader would believe as little , or as much , as he thought good .
How the author came to be without his papers , is a ftory not proper to be told , and of very little ufé , being a private fact , of which the reader would believe as little , or as much , as he thought good .
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| Title | The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Volume 1 of The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Publisher | C. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Hinton, J. Dodsley, L. Davis and C. Reymers, R. Baldwin, and W. Bowyer, 1766 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2018 |
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